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Provide CICS container visibility in z/OS Connect EE

z/OS Connect EE (service provider) delivers the capability to expose existing CICS assets based on CICS Containers. Alas though unlike CICS TS and CICS IA there appears to be no method to ascertain what CICS containers are being used by a given Se...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

ECOBOL v5.1 - CEE0813S Insufficient storage.

I created Service Request 89561,7TD,000 to resolve a CEE0813S Insufficient storage issue a user was having. As per the SR, a 'quick fix' should make the August release but may not resolve the issue. I was advised to submit an RFE quoting RTC 11416...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

RBD 無法指定 EGL 代碼以外的 MQ TCP/IP 連接屬性，希望能由EGL Build Descriptor CallLink Elements定義MQ相關屬性

在原有VAGen MQ應用程式需要Linkage Options:mqic32.lkg來運行 mqic32.lkg內容:calllink applname=elaq* linktype=dynamic dllname=csomqc32 bitmode=32 parmform=oslink 由VAGen轉EGL時RBD無法於EGL Build Descriptor Call Link做設定，訪問MQ Server會失敗不認得需於程式新增MQEnvironment物件指定相關MQ TCP/IP...
about 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Add "replying to operator console messages" to IDz

A console message such as 4200000 DEMOMVS 12.12.36 STC10875 *068 DFS996I *IMS READY* IMSC, response would require a 3270 interface to SDSF.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Code Analyzer Reporting Enhancements

We are trying to use the Code Analyzer to scan our programs for our Standards, but currently no reporting is done for our management to validate. Reports are local to the developer running them. We would like the tool to provide reporting to show ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Add Vol=SER specification to ALCCKD Command

Currently, when running the ALCCKD command, a "default" VOL=SER is assigned to the newly allocated Volume. If the ALCCKD is executed for several Volumes, then ALL of those Volumes will have the SAME VOL=SER which will lead ot errors when zD&T ...
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

Support for facelets

Facelets are the official view technology for JSF 2.0. Facelets are already supported in the "sibling product" Rational Application Developer 8, but the newest JSF standard supported in Rational Business Developer is JSF 1.2.
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

Stop doing pointless updates to DFHRSTAT in cpsm non-target cics regions

CPSM code should check to see if a cics region is defined as a wlm target region. If it is NOT a wlm Target region, cpsm should override (to 0) any coded, or default, UPDATE RS parm value to avoid updating DFHRSTAT with info that will never be uti...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

zD&T Pre-allocated User Volumes

Include 2-3 3390-m9 pre-allocated volumes in base ADCD distribution.
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Rarional Programming Patterns: having subscripts automatically located in the subscript data group.

When using RPP (V9.5.1) I noticed that the subscripts generated thru the snippets are not generated in binary format (COMP, COMP-4/5 or BINARY usage) - preferred format for this kind of data -. RPP seems to expect the user to add a group data item...
over 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

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